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Budget. $8.5–25 million [1][2] Box office. $17.2 million [1] Election is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Alexander Payne from a screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on Tom Perrotta 's 1998 novel of the same name. The plot revolves around a student body election and satirizes politics and high school life.
Judith Flick (mother, portrayed by Colleen Camp) Tracy Enid Flick is a fictional character who is the subject of the 1998 novel Election by Tom Perrotta and portrayed by Reese Witherspoon in the 1999 film adaptation of the same title. She is a smart, ambitious high school student whose quest to win a school election is nearly derailed by her ...
Election (novel) Election. (novel) Election is a 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta about a high school history teacher who attempts to sabotage a manipulative, ambitious girl's campaign to become school president. The novel was adapted into a film of the same title. Shooting occurred in 1997, prior to publication, but the film was not released until 1999.
Payne, who’s appearing at the Sarajevo Film Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, gave an update on the anticipated sequel to his 1999 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta ...
His second film, Election, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, which takes aim at politics and education in America, attracted attention when New Yorker film critic David Denby named it the best film of 1999. Payne received his first Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay nomination for Election.
Code of Silence. Some Kind of Wonderful. Herman's Head. Website. mollyhagan.com. Molly Hagan is an American actress. She co-starred in films Code of Silence (1985), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), The Dentist (1996), Election (1999), and Sully (2016), and is also known for her roles in television on Herman's Head (1991–94) and Unfabulous (2004 ...
Holy Smoke! Miramax Films. Jane Campion (director/screenplay); Anna Campion (screenplay); Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Tim Robertson, Sophie Lee, Daniel Wyllie, Paul Goddard, Pam Grier, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Hari Om Sharan. A Map of the World.
Campbell was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [3] Her acting appearances included the roles of Tammy Metzler in the 1999 film Election, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance, [4] [5] Julie Gold in the 2001 film The Safety of Objects, [6] and the two-episode guest role of Amy Andrews in the TV series Freaks and Geeks.